The below blog entries all focus on the three centres of intelligence: the gut, heart and/or head. Since some of them also include other tags, the same articles might show up in other collections, too.
Where It Takes Only One to Tango — and Falling from the Dance into the Heart
We, or our ego mind, likes to see things dualistically. As opposites — or, by all means, as complimentary powers; the ego isn’t necessarily opposed to those, either. But it always seems to be about two ends of a stick, with us somewhere in between — usually closer to either, sticking to one or bouncing back and forth between extremes. In the Enneagram world, we are…
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Deeper Inner Work: Balancing the Centres (yes, all of them!)
For our self-awareness and depth of presence to be of any real substance, it requires balance in and between our three basic centres of intelligence: the gut, the heart and the head. In this article, I wanted to present, in brief, what this means (and how it looks when the balance is off). The Gut Centre — wants, drive, resistance, and instinctual impulses Sometimes I hear…
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Anger in the instinctive triad — grasping the subtleties of the “triad theme” descriptions
Recently, I saw the question raised how Ones and Nines were “anger types” — Ones, after all, preferring to not show anger, and Nines seeming do bend over backwards to avoid it, both in themselves and from others. The only “anger type” that seems to live up to the name is the Eight. So, what gives? There are multiple ways to respond to this question. One…
Heart and gut “distinguished” (at least for relatively creative, flowing and open minds 😉)
Some people report confusion when it comes to the expression of the gut centre and heart centre, respectively. And sure — not only for “head types” but for all of us, it’s easy to see “head” on the one side and “not head” on the other. In part, this is because our general western culture likes dividing things into dual relationships: black and white, right and…
The ego: Recruiter, isolater and general mess-creator
I keep coming back to the centres. The importance of allowing them all their space to be, to fulfil the functions they were designed to fulfil. We all have one “home base” centre — the one whose triad we’re in. But we possess all three centres. We are WHOLE individuals, not thirds. But even as we are whole, we tend to gravitate to certain aspects and…
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